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UNITED STATES JOSEPH A. PINE, OF MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

FINISHING OR BURNISHING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed June 6, 1907. Serial No. 377,545.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Josnrn A. PINE, of Marlboro, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Finishing or Burnishing Machines, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to machines for finishing and burnishing surfaces of heels, soles and other parts of boots and shoes in which a rotary wax-carrying and applying wheel is employed having a yielding periphery which is heated, and to which wax is presented, the wax being softened by the heated periphery and rubbed upon the surface to be finished.

The invention has for its object to provide improved means for applying wax to a wheel of the character above indicated.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this SpecifiCatiom Figure 1 represents an elevation, partly in section, showing a finishing machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section on line 3-3 of Fig. l.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings 1 have illustrated my invention hereinafter described and claimed, in connection with a ro-' tary wax-carrying wheel of the construction shown in my application for Letters Patent of. the United States filed September 8, 1906, Serial No. 333,777, for improvement in finishing or burnishing machines, the said wheel being composed of an annular body 12, the periphery of which is adapted to support a suitable flexible wax-holding cover 13, which may be composed of any suitable textile material. The edges of the cover are bent inwardly over the sides of the carrier, and are confined by suitable clamping members, as set forth in the above-mentioned application.

27 represents a gas burner located within the chamber of the carrier 12, said burner being provided with a series of orifices 28 adapted to direct jets of flame outwardly against the inner surface of the annular body 12 of the carrier, thus simultaneously heating the same at numerous points. The burner 27 is preferably of the Bunsen type, and is provided with air-inlets 29 which admit air to the gas supplied by the supply-pipe 30.

31 represents a wax-holder which is movable toward and from the periphery of the wax carrier, and isadapted to support a cake 32 of wax and to present the same to the cover 13. The wax holder as here shown is a plate to which are aifixed downwardly projecting rods 33 movable in guides in a fixed supporting arm or bracket 34 attached to the frame of the machine. Springs 35 exert downward pressure on nuts afiixed to the rods 33, and thus yieldingly maintain the holder 31 out of contact with the wax carrier.

36 represents a lever pivoted at 37, one arm of said lever bearing against the wax-holder 31, while the other is connected by red 38 with a treadle (not shown). A movement of the treadle by the operators foot causes the lever 36 to raise the wax-holder 31 and press the wax thereon against the heated cover of the wax carrier. When the treadle is released, the springs 35 immediately retract the wax-holder.

It will be seen from the foregoing that all parts of the wax carrier are heated by the burner, the jets from which radiate in all directions, and impinge against the internal surface of the annular body of the wax carrier. The cover 13 is thus kept in a heated condition so that wax presented to it by the wax-holder 31 is absorbed by the cover, and held thereby in a softened or melted condition. The operator waxes the surfaces to be finished by pressing said surfaces against the periphery of the cover 13.

The wax holder 31 is provided with an upwardly projecting guard 40 at one end, said guard rising to a point as close to the periphery of the wax carrier as is practicable to prevent the heated wax from being swept off from the top of the case and thrown onto the operator, or about the room.

I claim:

1. A waxing machine comprising a rotary heated wax carrier, a fixed arm or bracket adjacent to the periphery of the carrier, a wax holder supported by the arm, and movable toward and from the carrier, and means for moving the wax holder toward the carrier to apply wax to the cover, the said arm and carrier having complemental means for guiding the carrier.

2. A waxing machine comprising a rotary heated Wax carrier, 9. fixed arm-or bracket adjacent to the periphery of the carrier, a wax holder supported by the arm and movable toward and from the carrier, the said arm and carrier having complemental guide members, means controlled by the operator for moving the holder toward the- JOSEPH A. PINE..

Witnesses CLARA P. FAY,

Fannmmc H. FAY. 

